Is there an ajax toolkit that does:
A star rating system
captcha
file upload
auto-complete
I am planning a new social website.
A lot of the frameworks can do what you are looking for, but the the answer to "Which is better" is hard to define. And, unfortunately, the frameworks are developing so quickly that a comparison is only valid for a short amount of time.
The highest rated question on this topic was asked about a year ago, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394601/which-javascript-framework-jquery-vs-dojo-vs.
Hopefully that can give you some background, so you can make a more informed decision.
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First of all, I know about this: Licensing Technology for OS X applications?
But, since it was posted so long ago, that almost all answers point to dead urls, I think its time for a new question.
I am researching options on frameworks for license-key registration for OSX cocoa apps. I want to know what is out there, that supports Elliptic Curve Cryptography and is released under MIT or something similarly permissive as a license.
Currently, I've found just this (Watchdog): https://github.com/konstantinpavlikhin/Watchdog
But there are no reviews about it, nor does it seem to have much traction at github.
I use EllipticLicense for ECDSA-based license keys (the link is my fork of an abandoned project). It doesn't do online activation or validation or provide any UI, but it's simple and the validation is cross-platform, which is what I need.
I'm keeping an eye on DevMate by MacPaw as an all-in-one solution, but they're not out of beta yet.
I know it's not what you're asking for - but I can't see the purpose in super-complicated key generating algorithms when users can simply distribute valid keys they've bought from you through the various, well-known means (web sites, offline apps/databases of license codes)..
It might pay off to rather spend the time in developing cool features and building a strong user-community that's willing to support your app.
I am not too sure if this question is suited for this forum. If not, please let me know and I'll delete this.
I wanted to figure out the "easiest" way of keeping online score for a game or quiz on Windows Phone 7. Currently, I am not looking for things like Achievements etc. I know XBOX live provides a lot of stuff on these grounds, but it is not open for all.
I want to submit the score, and maintain the top 200 (may be less) odd scores. I am too lazy to write my own services and host it and go through the full maintenance cycle for that scoring system. Can someone point out some really good and easy to use + reliable services that I can use?
The product offered by Mogade has a lot of the features you have asked for:
Real time stats
Achievements
Logging
Javascript leaderboards & Facebook pages
Always free
No branding requirements
It's a very streamlined library where you only need to set up the bare essentials to get it working as all of the heavy lifting is managed for you automatically, allowing you to focus more time on the development of your game.
briansoli has written a fairly straightforward tutorial on how to get a leaderboard working with in a Windows Phone 7 game.
I hope you find this useful, let us know how you get on with it!
Microosft have just released a new toolkit called the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. This should help you out with quite a bit.
Have a look at this Cloud Cover Show, Episode 52 - Tankster and the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games
The toolkit enables unique capabilities for social gaming prerequisites, such as storing user profiles, maintaining leader boards, in-app purchasing, and more. The toolkit also comes complete with reusable server side code and documentation, as well as Tankster, a new proof-of-concept game built with HTML5
Is there any lightbox solution (along the lines of Fancybox, etc.) that is both accessible (VoiceOver & JAWS, etc., compatible, with perhaps WAI-ARIA roles) and mobile-friendly?
Bonus points for being a jQuery plugin.
It might be too late for you but I'll answer for people who may land here from Google search: recently I used NETEYE Touch-Gallery and it worked pretty well, at least on iPhone and Android.
I am making the same research at the moment to integrate into our project! I have looked at a lot of them and so far my favorite in terms of quality is:
Swipe box
http://brutaldesign.github.io/swipebox/#features
I know the question is very old but I am only answering for future references as other conversation was closed as duplicate.
I'm looking into writing a small custom app for a small business that can utilize a voice modem on Windows to pick up a phone call and play a customized voice message based on time of call.
The API on Windows that controls modems is TAPI, but it seems complex and low level that I'm not sure I can complete the app in time.
Any higher level API or software component I can use to accomplish what I need?
Thx
I think you'll need to look at 3rd party libraries for this. A quick google search turned this one up (though I've never used it).
I'm not sure what programming language you need, but I found many projects that may have elements you are looking for on CodeProject.com and SourceForge.net. I could make suggestions from the sites, but perhaps it would be better to leave it to you, as you know what project would best meet your needs. Doing a search on TAPI or telephony gave a lot of results, but I didn’t seen an already made project doing what you described above.
I hope these suggestions help you make your deadline, good luck.
I am new here, and interested in collaboration and social networking sites. I wonder if any of the available social networks falls down under the "Developers' Social Networks" umbrella, if there are any.
And what makes us believe that they are developer's SNs ? How do developers use them?
I would consider github the ultimate social network for developers (... though you can fork me even if you don't know me).
Stackoverflow could be considered a developers social network as well. We unwittingly group ourselves under the tags we answer questions under and ask questions under, and a very visible heirarchy emerges thanks to the the karma system.
Yep... Stackoverflow is a socialnetwork, and Jon Skeet is /root .
What about
OpenSocial
Open Social is Google’s new collection
of application programme interfaces
(APIs). APIs are used to develop
nearly all social network sites. At
OpenSocial you can browse the
application gallery and get started
creating or modifying your own APIs.
SNetBase.com
It provides a forum for professionals
involved in all aspects of programming
and Web development to share ideas,
tips, and resources.
Facebook.com
As a programmer, you can contribute to
the site by submitting idea or code
for an application or widget.
and read an article by Scott Hanselman
Social Networking for Developers
I think the social networking features of stack overflow are fantastic.
However, while stackoverflow is great for getting answers to highly specific questions, there is still a lot of really useful information on the web in the form of blogs. Often these blog posts are more general in nature and will answer questions you will have needed to ask in the future but will never have to. (a kind of prevention vs cure)
The comments people add to blog posts often add much value. I've noticed some tech/developer blogs with 'post comment using facebook profile' features. This feature is good in that you would be using the same username for every blog that you post a comment to. It also means all of your blog comments all over the web can be aggregrated to a single place (facebook). However, I would be very hestitant in using my facebook profile to post a comment on a public blog because I wouldn't want my tech comments being posted in my friends news feed as they would be completely irrelevant to 95% of my friends (and people might think I'm a total bore!)
Ideally there would be a version of facebook that is purely for developers. It would have a a feature similar to 'facebook connect' and every tech blog would implement this 'facebook connect' feature.
I'm sorry i've gone against the grain of stackoverlow and not actually answered the question that was posted. But the overall problem is highlighted in that I'm not sure where the best place is for this kind of discussion.
My opinions are a bit different. They are not social networking sites but I suggest that a developer should play more on these sites than Orkut, Facebook etc. I don't think there can be one single option for this answer. If you are a die hard developer then you have lots of choices.
Stack Overflow (Obviously)
It has all the features of a social networking site (most importantly, it is almost addictive).
CodePlex
I consider it a platform for developer collaboration. Most important aspect of CodePlex (and Sourceforge) is that they have very little noise.
CodeProject
I love its lounge.
Note: I visit Facebook and Orkut just to see what they are doing technically because they are almost masterpieces of work. I can get a lot of ideas and inspiration from these sites.